The New Mithraeum Database

Some scholars have speculated that the scrolls both figures hold in their hands represent Eastern doctrines brought to the Western world.

TNMM372 – CIMRM 44

There are two Venus from the Mithraeum of Sidon, one in bronze and the other in Parian marble.

TNMM306 – CIMRM 86

The Mithraeum of Hauarte or Hawarte, which preserves colourful frescoes, it's the latest know and used.

TNMM221

The fraternal order that focussed on the worship of the ancient Iranian god Mithra was probably formed in Iran, Armenia, and Pontus (the southern coastal region of the Black Sea in eastern Anatolia, present-day Turkey). Travelers and colonists from theseS…

This monumental head of Antionchus I of Commenage is in Nemrut Dağı together with other representations of the Greco-Iranian king.

TNMM110 – CIMRM 29

Soldier of the Legio XVI Flavia Firma Antoniana stationed at Dura Europos.

The City of Darkness unique fresco from the Mithraeum of Hawarte shows the tightest links between the western and eastern worship of Mithras in Roman Syria.

TNMM344

'Hail to Kamerios the Pater' can be read on one of the walls of the mithraeum at Dura Europos.

TNMM614 – CIMRM 67

The Temple of Mithras, inside an ancient military settlement, is situated on the eastern border of the Roman Empire.

Our modern understanding of Mithraism, though, depends largely on a few short (and very problematic) literary mentions, mostly written by the cult’s Christian rivals.

Thrasyllus was an Egyptian of Greek descent grammarian, astrologer and a friend of the Roman emperor Tiberius.

King of the Greco-Iranian Kingdom of Commenage

Danube region can be traced back to the legions that fought under his command in Armenia.

Of Semitic origin, Absalmos has dedicated a tauroctonic relief to Mithras in ancient Syria.

Centurion who dedicated the first known Latin inscription to the invincible Mithras.

The most emblematic of the Syrian Mithraea was discovered in 1933 by a team led by the Russian historian Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff.

TNMM34 – CIMRM 34

The colossal head has been identified as a solar god, Apollo-Mihr-Mithras-Helios-Hermes.

TNMM275 – CIMRM 29

This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.

TNMM224 – CIMRM 71

The Mithraeum of Sidon may have escaped destruction because the Mithras worshippers walled up the entrance to the underground sanctuary.

TNMM11 – CIMRM 74

The main relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Mithraeum of Dura Europos includes three persons named Zenobius, Jariboles and Barnaadath.

TNMM298 – CIMRM 40, 41